People v. Jackson

The three appellants, Wilton Munford, Lloyd Jackson and John Greene stand convicted of murder in the first degree upon an indictment which charged that on May 26,1942, in Kings County, they stabbed and killed Booker T. Bason.

The decedent operated a gambling room in his living quarters in a second floor apartment at the northwest corner of Herkimer Street and Albany Avenue in Brooklyn. As a prologue to proof of the homicide and as evidence of a motive for the crime, witnesses for the People testified that three days prior to the death of Bason, on a Saturday evening when the defendant Munford…